Quotes About Choice

Evans understood that if Nakamura chose, it would be indiscriminately and their number would include the sickest—and perhaps most likely the sickest, because they were of least use to Nakamura—and that all of them would die. If, on the other hand, he, Dorrigo, chose, he could pick the fittest, the ones he thought had the best chance of living. And most would die anyway. That was his choice: to refuse to help the agent of death, or to be his servant.

Trecutul nu este soarta ta, singura iti faci viata, ca atunci cand conduci masina, fie incet, neriscand nimic, necastigand nimic, fie repede, cand tot ceea ce conteaza e ce ai in fata, in clipa asta, iar tot ce e in spate nu mai are relevanta.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him sing opera.

Probably many people's vision of "thinking something through" is of this nature: you do precisely what you want to do—if you can.

Rien n'est jamais clair car nous disposons tous d'un éventail de moi parmi lesquels choisir.

A choice architect has the responsibility for organizing the context in which people make decisions.

The combination of loss aversion with mindless choosing implies that if an option is designated as the "default," it will attract a large market share. Default options thus act as powerful nudges.

you want to nudge people into socially desirable behavior, do not, by any means, let them know that their current actions are better than the social norm.

people have a strong tendency to go along with the status quo or default option.

A nudge, as we will use the term, is any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people's behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives.

Libertarian paternalism is a relatively weak, soft, and nonintrusive type of paternalism because choices are not blocked, fenced off, or significantly burdened.

Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context.

So to put it simply, forcing people to choose is not always wise, and remaining neutral is not always possible.

The core premise of economic theory is that people choose by optimizing.

Moral: to the extent you can choose, work on problems you think will be important.

People make their own history, as Karl Marx once memorably observed, but not under conditions of their own choosing.

pushed by pain or pulled by possibility.

No such thing as time travel, he'd rumbled patiently, once. Only live with what you've done, and try in the future to do what you're happy to live with.

Worse fates than being forced into a place where your choice of acts is limited to those where your soul burns brightest.

Choose your feelings as you would a weapon. This is what it is to be Majak.

The eyes are dim, but a single bright glimmer tracks down one weathered cheek. Ringil— Gil shakes his head. 's okay. Thanks for the krin. Going to be a big help. He slings the Ravensfriend up and over his shoulder, walks away from the god and down the slope towards the waiting dwenda. After all , he calls back. Worse fates than being forced into a place where your choice of acts is limited to those where your soul burns brightest .

We look back and see a path we have taken through life. It's tempting to think that the path was always there, laid out with purpose and waiting only for us to walk it.

Ce n'est pas un des miens non plus, a dit Bancroft un peu trop vite. J'ai choisi cet exemple au hasard. Il y a des choses, des désirs en chacun de nous qu'il vaut mieux étouffer. Ou au moins, qu'il est impossible d'exprimer dans un contexte civilisé.

Machine idiolect. It doesn't matter how sophisticated they get, they still end up sounding like a playgroup learning box. I sighed and looked directly ahead at the slice-of-virtual-life holos on the wall. "You want out, now'd be a good time to tell me." "I do not want out, Takeshi Kovacs. I merely wished to acquaint you with the considerations involved in this course of action." "Okay. I'm acquainted.